Cavin Mugarura

Friday, September 17, 2010

Workflow Applications - Process Maker

The need to build work flow automation applications, is more than 2 decades old, and several tools have to tried to accomplish this feat. Many programmers will attempt to achieve work flow automation using various programming languages, such as PhP, Java, C or .net

In this post, i ll review Process Maker, a commercial/Open Source Application.

ProcessMaker is a simple, cost-effective, open source workflow software solution. Also known as business process management (BPM) software, ProcessMaker helps organizations of all sizes to easily design, automate, and deploy approval-based business processes.

Pros

Active forum

Process maker has sample applications

The web based GUI is

Open source

There is a 30 day Cloud based Trial version
Pentaho Business Intelligence reports
Good Webinars

Cons

The community is not yet large

It has no market place similar to the iphone store
The open source version has no reports